On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 03:21:32PM +0200, Stefan Tibus wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 02:29:04PM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 02:14:56PM +0200, Stefan Tibus wrote: > > > where and why is /view/tag gone? I was using it to get the tag > > > of the current view in order to have it as first entry in my > > > select tags menu... > > > > Because you can catch it in wmiirc when calling view <tag> > ...by creating another variable containing the same information > which is already available inside wmiiwm. And I even have to > reinvent the same thing in some scripting language (sh) instead > of using the existent and faster C code. You wouldn't want to > write the hole window manager in sh if you could, would you? > > And finally, I may always call "echo view bla | wmiir write /ctl" > on the shell, which I cannot catch from within wmiirc! > > What's the use of hiding those variables? (Maybe there are even > more useful ones than just the current tag.) Another few lines of > code saved? Which on the other side I have to add to my wmiirc...
Well, I didn't saw real need in knowing the selected tag, anyway, it is no problem, will be available in hg tip soon. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
